Google Won’t Have To Break Up Its Ad Business, Judge Rules, Though It Will Have To Change Its Ways
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Google will not have to break up its advertising operations, a federal judge has ruled, though it will have to alter its business practices. Leonie M. Brinkema, U.S. District Judge of the Eastern District of Virginia, handed down her decision Wednesday.
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